Written by

Lesley Weidenbener
| TheStatehouseFile.com

State legislative leaders are weighing how to deal with what one of them called a "civil war" between the governor and state superintendent of public instruction.

Already, Republican lawmakers have been working behind the scenes to mediate the dispute, which has crippled the State Board of Education. The clash stems from Democrat Superintendent Glenda Ritz's win over a GOP incumbent last year and Republican Gov. Mike Pence's creation of a new education-related agency.

"Right now the status quo is not acceptable," Senate President Pro Tem David Long, R-Fort Wayne, said last week. "We ...